• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

    Henry Ward Beecher: No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent  colonnades along its streets.
    Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.4